Antonio Lauro (August 3, 1917 – April 18, 1986) was a Venezuelan musician, considered to be one of the foremost South American composers for the guitar in the 20th century.Filed under: Music Tagged: Natalia by Antonio Lauro, The DWR Friday Classical…
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Dead Wild Roses: Talking About Gender – Debbie Cameron and Joan Scanlon – Part 2
Did you miss part 1 here? “To make sense of these ideas [conceptions of gender] and decide what you think of them, it’s helpful to understand a bit of history—the history of feminist and sexual radical ideas. There are three main questions we think it’s worth pursuing in more detail: Is it true that radical […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Insanity is… – xkcd
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The USA – Fascism and the Failure of (neo)Liberalism.
Chris Hedges occasionally has some good ideas when it comes to the American body politic. Consider what we are seeing on the news, and is it really that far off from what is being stated here? “As Arendt noted, the fascist and communist movements in Europe in the 1930s “… recruited their members from this […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Ghomeshi Verdict: We Deserve Better — Susan on the Soapbox
“Violence against women is not about the behavior of the women.”–Gillian Hnatiw, lawyer for Lucy DeCoutere By his own admission Jian Ghomeshi likes rough sex. The legal question is whether the three women who met Ghomeshi in 2002 and 2003 like it too. Jian Ghomeshi was charged with four counts of sexual assault and […] via […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: John Stuart Mill – The Subjection of Women
John Stuart Mill wrote an essay in 1861 (published 1869) called the Subjection of Women. From this brief quote we can see the evidence that even in the 19th century there were people who understood how socialization effects people and how they behave. I’m constantly amazed that here and now in the 21st century I […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Date Preparation for Females and Males
The Female Version: And then there is male date preparation: Men worry that their date won’t measure up to their aesthetic preferences. Women worry that they’re going wind up dead. The disparity is RIDICULOUS, and the fact that dudes get offended when women try to protect themselves is hard proof that way too many […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Why Did Jesus Rebuke Peter?
Well, the short answer is that Jesus was a complete dick. Discern4 has a slightly longer and more detailed answer. Happy Bunny Day, btw. :)Filed under: Religion Tagged: Happy Bunny Day, Jebus the dick, Jesus and Peter, The DWR Sunday Religious Disserivce
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Fools and Liars: In Which I Tell the Truth
Originally posted on Our Rape Blog:
There’s a question people keep asking about the Ghomeshi trial, and I was up most of last night trying to think of how to answer it. I finally shut my brain off by picturing, in as much detail as possible, a solid wall of packed dirt in the dark…
Dead Wild Roses: John Pilger on Identity Politics
“A generation ago, a post-modern cult now known as “identity politics” stopped many intelligent, liberal-minded people examining the causes and individuals they supported — such as the fakery of Obama and Clinton; such as bogus progressive movements like Syriza in Greece, which betrayed the people of that country and allied with their enemies. Self […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rosie Fletcher – Feminism Should be About Females.
This excerpt from an article in the New Statesman: “It’s a shame then that my enjoyment of International Women’s Day each 8th March is consistently spoiled by the United Nations’ attempt to put men at the heart of feminism with their #HeForShe campaign. Let me say this very clearly. Men-centric feminism is garbage. Feminism […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Former porn actress tells young women “Don’t do porn”
Originally posted on Purple Sage:
From the Independent, former porn actress Bree Olson has a message for young women, which is “Don’t do porn.” She entered the porn industry voluntarily, but no longer wants to be a part of it. She no longer wants her pictures on the Internet and doesn’t want to be treated…
Dead Wild Roses: Time Magazine is right: We should be sick of the word “feminist” by now
Originally posted on glosswatch:
Time magazine is running a poll on words that should be banned in 2015, of which one of those proposed is “feminist”. I think we can all get behind that. Who wouldn’t be bored of feminism by now? It’s been going on for ages – for at least as long as…
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – Missa Brevis K49 – W. A. Mozart
Our choir will be singing this in May. My very first Mass. 🙂 The counting in some of the movements are quite tricky, as young Mozart decided that switching between common and cut time was a cool thing to do. The Mass in G major (K. 49/47d) is the first full mass composed by Wolfgang […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Meghan Murphy – Defining the “F” word.
Wow. Meghan Murphy simply and clearly posits what Feminism is about. Check out her blog here. “There are various ways the divide between “feminisms” is articulated: liberal vs radical, third wave vs second wave, sex-positive vs sex-negative, but none of those have ever seemed wholly accurate to me. (In particular, challenging male-centred or coercive […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: White Male Privilege – Squandered!
HAMILTON, OH—Despite being the beneficiary of numerous societal advantages and having faced little to no major adversity throughout his life, local man Travis Benton has spent the last four years squandering his white male privilege on a sales floor job at Best Buy, sources confirmed Tuesday. “You can get by with a regular HDMI cable, […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Radical Feminism – Sex Based Oppression – What is it?
I have to thank tumblr for occasionally putting such important concise definitions at my fingertips. So, let’s define what sex based oppression and where it comes from. “As Friedrich Engels made clear, even before feminism’s First Wave, women were historically controlled because we are “a means of production”—without women, there are no heirs, and without […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Video Game Review – Warhammer Vermintide
This game has a long title, it is called Warhammer:Endtimes – Vermintide. Vermintide is a four player cooperative survival game, set in the Warhammer fantasy universe. People familiar with Valve’s Left4Dead series will be familiar with the play-style and challenges to be encountered in Vermintide. The plot of the game resolves around the actions of […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – The Ridiculous Claim
How untruth becomes truth; a good bit of insight into how religion become codified into society. Filed under: Atheism, Religion Tagged: Religion and Society, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice, truth
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: 6 Minutes for Syria – A Look into the Crisis
Our corporate news media is very good at keeping inconvenient facts away from the public eye. A six minute video, by definition, cannot provide many startling revelations, but rather a starting point to become informed and hopefully take action.
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